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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

So the Doomtree hip hop collective is pretty big up here in MN. And producer Lazerbeak is kind of the cog that makes it all work, at least in my opinion. He's got a new album out now. And when I heard he was having a contest where MCs could rap over one of his beats, I figured why not.

I wanted to write a fully-realized song for this; it's subject matter that I've tackled before, but it's something I'm passionate about so it was fun to take a crack at it from a new angle. Singing and fast-rapping are two things that I rarely do, and that's pretty much all this song is, so it was a great challenge too. See More Perspective mixed and recorded it. If I don't win, we'll probably just remix it and release it as something else.

Monday, January 02, 2012

This piece really isn't about Michele Bachmann-- as I say in the poem, she's a convenient figurehead. The problem here is much bigger, of course. I'll let the poem speak for itself, but definitely wanted to share some further reading material and ways to plug in: